The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-06-02
General and miscellaneous.

1000 900 tons of iron ore out of the Gogebic sec
ton this season.
Contracts have been let for building ninety
two miles Of the Duluth, Huron & Denver road.
The track is to be ready for trains by Jan. l.
E. A. Touzalin, head of the Chicago, Burling-
ton & Northern Railroad Company, is said to be
the only cross-eyed railroad president in the
country.
The opening of the ST Lawrence bridge and
the construction of the Short-line to a connec-
ton with the Southeastern will shortly give the
Canadian Pacific entrance into Boston
An engineering party has been making sur
Portage. Wis. 1t is understood that the Wis
consin Central people are behind the project
A company has been organized to build a road
from Grand Ledge. on the Detroit & Lansing
road, to Grand Rapids, a distance OF fifty three
miles This will make good feeder for the
Grand Rapids s. Indiana road.
It has been announced before that the Balti-
more & Ohio passenger stock is to be equipped
with the Westinghouse brake. The latest form
of quick acting triple valve. first used at the
Burlington trials. will be applied for the first
time in regular service
The Roane steel mill rol,ing-mill at Chatta-
nooga which has just been converted into a
steel-rail mill, at cost of $170. 900. commenced
operations last week. Over five hundred hands
are employed at the mill, and Its producing ca
pacity is $50 tons daily.
George l.. Sands the newly appointed gen.
eral superintendent of the Atchison, Topeka 81
Santa Fe road, took hold yesterday. His head
quarters are Co De at Topeka -. y. chase,
whom he succeeds, comes to Chicago to take
charge of the Santa Fe line east of the Missouri
river.
By unanimous vote the Merchants, Assoca-
ton of Milwaukee has decided to recommend to
the directors of the Chicago. Milwaukee & st.
Paul company, 81 its annual meeting on Satur-
Gay. that John Plankinton be elected president
Of the road, to succeed the late Alexander
Mitchell, and j. l.. Mitchell director in
place of his father.
Monday morning party of engineers began
fh0 nltr,rty,
o., to Carey, Pa, distance of 165 miles. The
proposed line is continuation of the Toledo 81
Delphos road. 1t will connect with the Toledo.
St. Louis & Kansas City for the Southwest,
making shorter line. in connection with the
Pittsburg e Western out of Pittsburg, to the
Southwest than the Baltimore & Ohio.
The preliminary examination of couplers for
some forty thousand miles of road represented
in a com animation, will begin in New York city on
the 9th of this month The examination will De
mainly confined to capacities for automatic
coupling for meeting without coupling. and for
uncoupling at varying heights anc on curves.
Up to date twelve couplers have been entered
for the contest-seven hook, four link and pin
and one link and hook
cheering News, will be the eighteenth anniver-
sary of the completion of the first Pacific rail-
way, and the word Pacific railway seems now to
be the proper thing to place at the end of any
newly pro- ected road of Importance. Instead OF
the progress of transcontinental lines being
matter of popular interest and knowledge, the
know what the companies are which steadily
and rapidly working their way across the CONT
nent to the Pacific slope Last year the Chicago
& Northwestern railroad extended its Fremont,
Elkhorn d Missouri Valley line to Fort Fetter-
man, Wy. T. Work has now been resumed west
of that point, and the line will be built across
central Wyoming and southern Idaho, crossing
the Union Pacific at Eagle Rock On the Pacific
coast the Oregon Pacific railway, which already
has seventy-fve miles completed, has let large
contracts and is fast locating and building its
line across Oregon through the Cascade mount
aims to Boise City, l. T.. At or that point
the junction will be made with the line from tbs
east and another company will be ready to de-
clare interstate rates from Chicago to the Pacific.
The route for any further extension of the
Ma nitoba road is yet to be determined, and the
company itself is, of course far from avowing
any intention of building to the Pacific. But
that they will refrain from occupying the rich
field of Washington Territory, after having ex-
tended so far. seems unlikely. Their probable
route is said TO be by way of the Sun river
through Cadets pass, crossing the Northern
Pacific at Mssoula; thence up the Big Blackfoot
and St Regis valleys to the C9ur dAiene min
ing country. Should the company push work
another season ut the same rate as this, its line
would be completed before the Northwestern.
At any rate, these two will probably distance
their compotitorg.